Combined match-box and cigar-cutter.



H. MARRIOTT. COMBINED MATGH BOX AND CIGAR CUTTER.

A PPLIGATION FILED MAY '6, 1909.

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COMBINED MATCH BOX AND CIGAR CUTTER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 6. 1909.

945,792, Patented Jan. 11,1910.

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HAL MARRIOTT, F NEWARK, OHIO.

COMBINED MATCH-BOX AND CIGAR-CUTTER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAL MARRIOTT, citizen of the United States, residingat Newark, in the county of Licking and State of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Combined Match-Boxes andCigar-Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to delivering mechanism, and refers particularlyto a combined match delivering device and cigar cutter.

An object of this invention is to provide a mechanism of this characterwhereby the act of cutting the tip of a cigar will cause the delivery ofa match, and the match delivering mechanism may be actuatedindependently of the cigar cutting mechanism.

The invention further provides a device which is so constructed as topositively feed the matches singly from the receptacle and at the sametime to positively cut the tip of the cigar.

The invention still further contemplates the provision of a device ofthis character which is formed of but few operative parts which are sopositioned in relative arrangement with one another that the same may beformed of strong and durable material to thereby produce a practicaldevice of this nature.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawings, in which;

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the complete device; Fig. 2 is alongitudinal vertical section through the same; and Fig. 3 is alongitudinal horizontal section of the line 83 of Fi 2. Fig. 4 is aperspective view of the complete machine. Fig. 5 is a top plan View ofthe same, partly shown in section, and Fig. 6 is a detailed sectionalview of the disk and attached blade.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 10 designates a base formed ofmetal, although wood or any other suitable material may be employed, andthe numerals 11 and 12 the opposite sides of the device while 13designates a back, the sides and back being formed preferably of thesame substance as the base Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 6, 1909.

Patented J an. 11, 1910.

Serial No. 494,270.

and 12 are positioned guides 14 and 15 which are extended longitudinallyof the base 10 in parallel relation to one another, and upon which isslidably disposed an ejector 16. The ejector 16 comprises a flattenedplate of metal or the like which is slightly elongated and extending theentire width of the base 10 included between the sides 11 and 12.

The ejector 16 is provided at its inner end.

with a depending stop 17 which engages against a shoulder 18 formedinwardly upon the guide 14: to limit the outward movement of the ejector16. For the purpose of normally retaining the ejector 16 in the outwardposition, the ejector 16 is provided with a helical spring 19 which issecured at its opposite extremities respectively to the under side ofthe ejector 16, at the inner end thereof, and to a pin 20 carried by thebase 10. The sides 11 and 12 are terminated a short dis tance from theforward end of the base 10 to permit of the extension of about one-thirdof the ejector 16 beyond the forward edges thereof so as to normallyretain a transverse slot 21 outwardly of the front wall 22 of thereceptacle, the front wall 22 being positioned between the forward edgesof the sides 11 and 12. The front wall 22 is preferably formed of atransparent material, or at least' the upper portion thereof, as isdisclosed in the drawings, so that the operator may readily observewhether or not the receptacle contains a quantity of matches. Adiagonally disposed bottom 23 is positioned within the receptaclebetween the sides 11 and 12, and extends from the upper rear edges ofthe sides 11 and 12 to a point intermediately over the ejector 16adjacent the forward end of the receptacle. Means is employed inconnection with the ejector 16 for raising the matches outward of thetransverse slot 21 when the same is extended from the front wall 22 andsuch means comprises an abutment 24 which is outwardly projected from anintermediate point adjacent the forward end of the base 10, the samebeing formed of a strip of metal, which passes through a slot 25longitudinally formed centrally and at the outer end of the ejector 16which is provided with a beveled edge 26 for engagement with the matcheswhich are carried in the slot 21 in order to raise the same thereout andto dispose the match upon the upper face of the ejector 16 to admit ofthe grasplO. Upon the base 10 within the sides 11'; ing of the same bythe operator.

For't'he purpose of actuating the ejector 16 a segment 27 is providedwhich is mounted upon a transverse shaft 28 for engagement with a rack29 formed upon the upper face of the ejector 16 at the inner endthereof. The shaft 28 is journaled at its opposite ends through thesides 11 and 12 and is provided upon one extremity with a crank 30 bymeans of which the operator rotates the shaft 28 in order to retract theejector 16 under the tension of the spring 19. The end of the shaftcarrying the crank 30 is extended out wardly of the wall 11 so as todispose the crank 30 against the outer face of the wall 11 to enable theeasy depression of the same by the operator.

It will be noted that the crank 30 extends forwardly to a point adjacentthe outer end of the ejector 16. Upon the opposite extremity of theshaft 28 a pawl 31 is rigidly disposed which is normally arranged in anupward position andv which is provided with a lug or head 32 forengagement through an elongated slot formed in a plate 33, which iscarried upon a cutter-arm 34 pivotally mounted upon the side 12. As isfully illustrated in the drawings the cutter arm 34 is of substantiallyL-formation having the short arm thereof arranged obliquely to the longarm, and having the short arm extended downwardly and rearwardly againstthe outer face of the side 12, the lower extremity of the short armbeing the pivotal point of the cutter arm 34. The plate 33 is secured tothe short arm of the cutter arm 34 and is so positioned with respect tothe same that the pawl 31 engages normally against the rear end of theplate 33 to cause the rotation of the pawl 31 upon the slightestdepression of the outer end of the cutterarm 34. The arm 34 is retainedin an upward position normally by the employment of a spring 35 which isof helical formation and which is engaged at its opposite ex tremitiesrespectively to the arm 34 and to a screw 36 disposed upon the side 12.An upper arm 37 is pivotally disposed at its rear extremity above thearm 34 and is normally retained in an upward position by resting uponthe arm 34, the arms 34 and 37 being retained in a substantiallyparallel position through the medium of a lug 3S depended from the arm37 which rides within a slot 39 formed in the upper face of the lever34.The arm 37 is provided upon its outer end with an aperturcd disk 40through which the cigar is engaged, and which is provided with inwardlyturned flanges 41 to guide a resilient cutter blade 42' carried upon theouter extremity of the cutter arm 34. The cutter blade 42 is composed ofa strip of flexible metal which is edged at its outer end and is of sucha length as to normally .rest with the cutting edge inwardly of andadjacent to the aperture formed through the disk 40. The strip is'slidably engaged against the under side of the disk '40 by the flanges41.

The pawl 31 and the adjacent mechanism are protected by means of asuitable housing 43 which is positioned thereabout against the side 12and retained in such position by the employment of set screws 44 or thelike.

The operation of the device is as follows; \Vhen it is desired towithdraw a match from the receptacle without operating the cigar tipcutting mechanism the crank 30 is depressed to partially rotate theshaft 28 in a forward direction, thereby swinging the segment 27 toretract the ejector 16 through the medium of the rack 29, when in thisposition a match will fall from the inclined bottom 23 into the slot 21of the ejector 16 and will be carried outwardly therewith beneath thefront wall 22 upon the release of the crank 30 under the action of thespring 19. As the ejector 16 moves outwardly the match will engageagainst the inclined edge 26 of the abutment 24 and will be raised outof the slot 21 thereby and deposited upon the upper face of the ejector16 when the operator may readily grasp the same. During this operationthe pawl 31 is moved forwardly. within the slot formed in the plate 33and does not disturb the arms 34 and 37 by reason of the elongatedformation of the slot.

Should it be desired to cut the tip from a cigar and obtainsimultaneously, a match from the receptacle, the end of the cigar ispositioned upon the disk 40 and depressed, when the arm 37 will engageagainst the arm 34 and the two will swing downwardly in a substantiallyparallel position to cause the cutter blade 42 to slide between theflanges 41, by reason of the eccentric mounting of the arms, and tosever the tip from the cigar. At the same time the plate 33 is drawnforwardly and caused to engage with the pawl 31 to rotate the shaft 23and to thereby retract the ejector 16 through the medium of the segment27 and rack 29. As

the plate 33 is rigidly secured to the arm 34 the rear end of the plate33 is raised about the pawl 31, and in order to prevent the bind ing ofthe arm 34, the pawl 31 is elongated to extend above the plate 33 aslight distance to dispose the head 32 upwardly of the plate 33. Thisconstruction admits of the free sliding movement of the plate 33 aboutthe pawl 31 until the full downward stroke of the arms 34 and 37 is hadwhen the lug or head 32 strikes the plate. Upon the release of the cigarfrom the disk 40 the spring 35 returns the arms 34 and 37 to theirnormal horizontal position, the lug 38 engaging against the arm 34within the slot 39 to arrest the motion of the levers 34 and 37, whenthe pawl 31 will be released and the spring 19 will slide thecejector 16outwardly to its.

normal position carrying thereon a match from the receptacle.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is:

1. A device as specified comprising a base, sides upwardly extended fromsaid base, a back carried by said base, a front wall disposed on saidbase, a diagonal bottom positioned between said sides, an ejectormounted above said base beneath said bottom, a shaft transverselydisposed through said sides and connected to said .ejector to retractthe same, a spring carried by said base and connected to said ejector tohold the same in a forward position, a cutter arm pivotally mounted uponone of the sides outwardly thereof, an upper arm pivotally mounted uponsaid side above said cutter arm, a lug carried by said upper arm forengagement with said cutter arm to limit the downward movement of saidarms, an apertured disk carried by said upper arm, a cutter bladecarriecPby said cutter arm and slidably engaged. beneath said disk, aspring carried by said side and engaged with said out ter arm fornormally retaining the same in an upward position, an apertured platerearwardly extended from an intermediate portion of said cutter arm, anda pawl car ried upon the end of said shaft and engaged through saidplate for rotating said shaft upon the depression of said arms.

2. A device as specified comprising a base, a match delivering mechanismmounted on said base, a pair of arms pivoted on one side of saidmechanism, a disk carried upon the upper of said arms, a cutter mountedupon the lower of said arms for sliding engagement with said disk, aslotted plate rearwardly extended from the lower of said arms, a pawlengaged through said plate and adapted to be moved thereby upon thedepression of said arm, a spring carried by said mechanism and connectedto said arm to normally raise the same, said arm having a slotlongitudinally formed in the upper face thereof, a lug projected fromthe upper arm for engagement in the slot to limit the movement of saidarms, and a shaft connected to said delivering mechanism engaged throughsaid pawl for the purpose j of rotating said shaft upon the depressionof said arms.

3. A device as specified including a base, a receptacle mounted on saidbase, having side and end walls, a shaft transversely disposed throughthe receptacle, an ejector mounted in said receptacle and connected tosaid shaft for delivering matches therefrom, a pawl rigidly mounted uponthe outer end of said shaft, a pair of arms eccentrically pivoted uponone of the sides of the receptacle adjacent said pawl, a plate carriedby one of said arms having an elonl gated slot formed therethrough toengage about the said pawl, and a cutting mechanism carried upon theouter ends of said arms, said arms adapted to rotate said shaft upon thedepression thereof, to actuate said ejector.

t. A device as specified including a base, sides upwardly extended fromsaid base in spaced relation, end. walls located between said sides, anejector located between said sides upwardly of said base, a shafttransversely located through said sides, and connected to said ejector,a cigar cutting mechanism mounted against the outer face of one of saidsides, and a loose connection between said cigar cutting mechanism andsaid shaft for admitting of the independent operation of said shaft fromthe cutting mechanism.

A device as specified including a match delivering mechanism, a shaftconnected to said mechanism, a pair of arms mounted pivotally adjacentsaid mechanism, a slotted plate carried by one of said arms, a pawllocated upon the end of said shaft and engaged loosely through saidplate, an apertured disk located upon the end of one of said arms, acutter slidably disposed against the under face of said disk and carriedby the other of said arms, and a spring mounted adjacent said mechanismand connected to one of said arms for retaining the same normally in ahorizontal position.

6. A device as specified including a match delivering mechanism, a sidecarried by said mechanism for operating the same, a pair of armseccentrically pivoted upon the outer face of said side in super-imposedrelation, a cutting mechanism located upon the outer ends of said arms,to be actuated by the sliding movement of the arms, and a looseconnection carried by the lower of said arms for actuating said matchdelivering mechanism.

7. A device as specified including a base, a housing mounted on saidbase, an ejector disposed in said housing, a pair of arms eccentricallypivoted upon the side of said housing, and in concentric relation, saidarms being arranged in sliding relation to one another, an apertureddisk carried upon the outer end of the upper of said arms, a cuttercarried by the lower of said arms and engaged against the under face ofsaid disk, a stop carried by'the upper of said arms for engagement withthe lower of said arms to limit the upward movement of both of saidarms, and a loose connection between said arms and said ejector.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HAL MARRIOTT. [L. s.]

Vitnesses J. R. \VARNER, C. G. CmBEL.

